Chapter 492: Chapter 492: Regent King’s Edict

Zhan Lan listened to the sounds outside the tent.

A voice came, “Oh my, why can’t I go in, don’t point your battle spears at me, if this keeps up, on a rainy day harvesting wheat, you’ll be in big trouble!”

Another voice followed, “I told you already, talking to him won’t work, just call someone directly!”

“Alright, you two stop arguing.” A third voice came.

Zhan Lan’s pupils suddenly enlarged, impossible, it must be an auditory hallucination.

How could the three of them have come to Fengyu Pass.

Zhan Lan abruptly stood up and pulled open the heavy door curtain.

In front of her stood three people, all looking at her simultaneously.

The soldier guarding them reported, “Main General, these three…”

Zhan Lan raised her hand to stop the soldier from continuing.

Huang Gun looked excitedly at Zhan Lan, patting his chest, “I, Huang Gun, vow to follow the Main General to battle the Western Rong!”

Dugu Yan raised an eyebrow at Zhan Lan, “I, Dugu Yan, swear to follow the Main General unto death!”

Xiao Chen smiled and nodded, “I, Xiao Chen, will follow the Main General for life, breaking through the Western Rong!”

The soldier who was just debating with the three suddenly broke into a cold sweat, realizing it was these three esteemed individuals.

They were all prominent figures, formerly brave troops under General Zhan, now important officials in court.

His legs went weak, not daring to interrupt the reunion between the three and the Main General.

Zhan Lan heard the words of the three and was so moved that her eyes turned red, she punched each one on the shoulder in turn, asking, “You’re not going to be officials anymore?”

Xiao Chen took out a sealed letter from his chest, “This is an edict from the Regent King, allowing the three of us to join you.”

If not for Mu Yan’s edict, the three of them could not have entered the military camp so easily.

“Mu Yan…” Zhan Lan opened the letter and saw Mu Yan’s familiar handwriting.

Mu Yan had chosen the most capable and trustworthy people for her, Xiao Chen, Huang Gun, Dugu Yan, both in this life and the previous, they were her best comrades.

She looked towards Li Sui who was approaching from a distance, his expression heavy, he said in a deep voice, “Main General, there’s still me, willing to swear unto death to follow you to break through the Western Rong!”

Zhan Lan looked at the four of them, feeling her blood boiling, it was so good, they were all here.

Xiao Chen saw Zhan Lan looking at Mu Yan’s edict with reddened eyes, he took out another letter and handed it to Zhan Lan, “This one is written to you by the Regent King.”

Zhan Lan quickly took the letter and tucked it into her sleeve.

Zhan Beicang walked out of the tent and was also surprised to see the three, the emperor probably didn’t know they were here!

But for now, it didn’t matter anymore, as long as they could defeat the Western Rong, nothing else mattered!

Zhan Hui’s expression was excited, all of his sister’s most reliable subordinates were here!

…

Zhan Lan returned to her tent and opened the letter from Mu Yan, it read, “Lan’er, be cautious in everything, meet in half a month!”

Zhan Lan closed Mu Yan’s letter and kept it close.

Half a month, why half a month?

She was somewhat puzzled by Mu Yan’s words.

Xiao Chen came to the outside of Zhan Lan’s tent, Zhan Lan took him to a place.

On the ice bed, Zhan Xinzhang lay peacefully there.

Xiao Chen, upon seeing the Old General’s body, his eyes turned red and he knelt down with a thud.

After giving the Old General three respectful bows, he looked at Zhan Lan.

Zhan Lan, having lived another life, still could not save the Old General’s life, how she must have been hurting inside.

Zhan Lan sighed, “You don’t need to comfort me, everyone meets death one day, a battle-hardened general willing to die for the people, perhaps Grandfather’s end is better than in the last life.”

“Just like Grandfather said, the best end for a general is to die in battle, not from old age or in disgrace, he also wanted to meet the ancestors upright!”

Zhan Lan seemed to be comforting herself, saying what Xiao Chen wanted to say to her.

Xiao Chen said in a deep voice, “If you can open your mind, that’s best, the Old General’s spirit will protect you.”

Zhan Lan nodded, “The three of you coming, did Emperor Qingwu have no reaction?”

Xiao Chen shook his head, “He should have been furious, but the three of us don’t care, at worst we’ll just give up being officials!”

Mu Yan had hurriedly summoned the three of them two days ago, sent them with his edict immediately to Fengyu Pass.

When they learned that Zhan Lan came here alone, they set off without another word.

Huang Gun, though usually playful, was absolutely reliable at critical moments, he went home, instructed everything, left his parents silver, and left.

Dugu Yan, without saying a word, went home and took two purple gold hammers and left.

Xiao Chen didn’t expect to see Li Sui in the camp.

Even in two lifetimes, their friendship remained unchanged.

…

In the palace, Emperor Qingwu, in the Imperial Study Room, his hands trembling, looked at the military reports from the border.

He only now realized that he had secretly promised two border cities to the Western Rong, one city with little to gain, Shili City, was massacred.

The other, Lianbian City, was saved by Zhan Lan and Zhan Xinzhang.

“Bastards! Zhan Lan, Zhan Beicang, Zhan Hui are all at Fengyu Pass, they went there without my orders!”

He overturned the ink and writing implements from the desk, palace maids and eunuchs were frightened to their knees.

Emperor Qingwu remembered that two days ago, Xiao Chen, Huang Gun, Dugu Yan left with Mu Yan’s edict not knowing where they went, and now he understood, the three had joined Zhan Lan!

He looked at his confidant in the palace and ordered, “Bring the Regent King here!”

The confidant replied, “Your Majesty, the Regent King is not in Ding’an City.”

“What, he’s not here?” Emperor Qingwu’s angry expression gradually relaxed.

With Mu Yan not in Ding’an City, the capital is under his control!

What a good thing!

…

The Zhan Family Army set off, and along their way they captured five small tribes of the Western Rong, Zhan Lan, with fifty thousand soldiers, bid farewell to Zhan Beicang at the border.

“Father, holding these five tribes, we have a strong rear base, only you can take on this responsibility.”

Zhan Beicang held tightly to his battle spear, he understood Zhan Lan’s character, he long knew that Zhan Lan would charge ahead, that’s why he handed the position of Main General to Zhan Lan, hoping she would command while he donned armor for battle.

But Zhan Lan wanted him to guard the rear, and this indeed placed him in a dilemma.

“Father understands the Western Rong’s combat habits better, should I not still…” Before Zhan Beicang finished his words, he was interrupted by Zhan Lan.

“Alright, father, hold this fifty-mile territory and Fengyu Pass, ensure the supply of military provisions, and I’ll credit you with a great merit!”

With that, she mounted her horse and left.

In the vast yellow sands, Zhan Beicang watched the back of Zhan Lan, Zhan Hui, Xiao Chen, Li Sui, Dugu Yan, Huang Gun, silently thinking: maybe Zhan Lan’s decision is right.

Along the way, Huang Gun rode side by side with Muer Hong, holding Muer Hong’s horse reins, shocked in his heart at how shameless Muer Hong was, almost spilling all Western Rong’s secrets to stay alive.

Just now, he had shown no mercy to the other five tribes either.

“Hey, big beard, your acting was quite likeable just now, you’re truly like a turtle eating its own tail, recognizing no kin!”

Muer Hong enduring all sorts of verbal abuse from Huang Gun the whole way, was so angry his whole body hurt.